Interview questions to put to Ableton

nervoustestpilot · Post by **nervoustestpilot** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:22 pm

I'm conducting an interview with Ableton this week for my website http://www.nervoustestpilot.co.uk, and I'm putting up a call for questions you guys would like to have me put to them. Please post them in this thread. Time is very tight, so I'll only be accepting questions for a couple of days. Thanks in advance.

ryansupak · Post by **ryansupak** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:26 pm

"In a broad sense, Do you plan to take Ableton Live in more of a "live usability" direction, or a "DAW" direction? Or, do you think it can be all things to all people?"

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Former Pharaoh · Post by **Former Pharaoh** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:50 pm

Ableton instruments and effects are very intuitive and conveniently placed in the track view which eliminates the need to occupy extra GUI space with free floating plug in windows. I question if there has been any consideration in negotiating with third party soft synth manufacturers (ala NI, Arturia etc.) to create exclusive instruments and effects for Live?

atomic · Post by **atomic** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:09 pm

Is there any talk of designing a dedicated hardware controller for ableton live?

ekko · Post by **ekko** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:20 pm

Who would win in a fight: the toughest guy at Ableton or the toughest guy at Propellerheads?

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:20 pm

1) How do they feel about the potential limitations of room: does it pose a threat to the live aspect of the interface as more DAW components are incorporated?

2) How about use of CC's? Afterall, Live was crafted in max/msp right?

3) Vector graphics implementation: If the abilty to to change pitch/time is anything like manipulating vector graphics, I can very easilly imagine a very well streamlined animation function. I would be particularly interested in a visually generated, vector graphics component to work with Operator, grain delay, beat repeat, etc (after all, I am selfish, and a visual thinker

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I know a lot of us want video implementation, though I sometimes find animation appropriate for electronic music

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:05 am

1) why do you release upgrades in the summer? summer means holidays. are you masochists?

2) do you feel you have built a special relationship with your customers? was that planned?

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:09 am

Are there any dj's on the team?

Shoma · Post by **Shoma** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:55 am

What does your Ableton Logo symbolize?

supster · Post by **supster** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:01 am

when you guys go out, who buys the bears?
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peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:13 am

Shoma wrote:What does your Ableton Logo symbolize?

i'm not from ableton, but i'd say that the logo represents a knob (look at the sends knobs).

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:32 am

peeddrroo wrote:
Shoma wrote:What does your Ableton Logo symbolize?
i'm not from ableton, but i'd say that the logo represents a knob (look at the sends knobs).

No. thats what the Live logo looks like

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:35 am

supster wrote:when you guys go out, who buys the bears?
.

Bears?

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:39 am

Where does the name "Ableton" come from? Does it mean anything? (Great name by the way!)

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:40 am

hoffman2k wrote:
peeddrroo wrote:
Shoma wrote:What does your Ableton Logo symbolize?
i'm not from ableton, but i'd say that the logo represents a knob (look at the sends knobs).
No. thats what the Live logo looks like

No, that's what the ABLETON logo looks like

edit: and i'd say this one symbolyses the session/arrangement views.